Partition drive C:

[RadiatingLight]

I want to partition my SSD, but windows will only let me shrink my primary partition (Disk C) by 600MB, which is not enough for what I want.

I have 121GB free space on the drive, so i don't know why this is happening.

maybe because i have my OS installed on the SSD?

 

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You can use something like gparted on an Ubuntu Live USB to reduce it as much as you need (well, not so small that it's smaller than the amount of used space, but that's obvious, I hope)

Sorry I just noticed that you have everything encrypted... this is not likely to work then...

[RadiatingLight]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

You can use something like gparted on an Ubuntu Live USB to reduce it as much as you need (well, not so small that it's smaller than the amount of used space, but that's obvious, I hope)

so to do that I would need to install Ubuntu on a flash drive, load gparted, and partition my SSD like a normal drive, because to Ubuntu it would not be protected as an OS. right?

This has no chance of messing up my OS, right?

 

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1 minute ago, RadiatingLight said:

so to do that I would need to install Ubuntu on a flash drive, load gparted, and partition my SSD like a normal drive, because to Ubuntu it would not be protected as an OS. right?

 

You would be able to fire it up and use it to play with partitions however you like.  I've used it before and it can shrink them much better than Windows.  It probably also would help that you're not trying to shrink the partition that the OS is running on  

 

At least, that's the normal situation; you seem to have encrypted everything, and I don't think Linux supports BitLocker, so that solution is probably not viable (see edit above)

[Nineshadow]

2 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

so to do that I would need to install Ubuntu on a flash drive, load gparted, and partition my SSD like a normal drive, because to Ubuntu it would not be protected as an OS. right?

This has no chance of messing up my OS, right?

 

Actually it does, since it's encrypted. You don't know how the data is represented.

You probably have data organized like :

[Data]->[Free space]->[Data]

Anyway, as far as GParted goes, a quick google yields :

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Encryption seems to becoming more popular and the Alternate CD allows installation onto a LUKS encrypted root and swap partitions.Resizing an encrypted partition is somewhat complicated. GUI tools such as Gparted see the LUKS container or crypt as unpartitioned space and thus resizing encrypted partitions must be performed entirely from the command line. It may in fact be easier to re-install and restore your data from backup rather then attempt to resize your encrypted partition.

 

[RadiatingLight]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

You would be able to fire it up and use it to play with partitions however you like.  I've used it before and it can shrink them much better than Windows.  It probably also would help that you're not trying to shrink the partition that the OS is running on  

 

At least, that's the normal situation; you seem to have encrypted everything, and I don't think Linux supports BitLocker, so that solution is probably not viable (see edit above)

Dang, that sucks. encrypting and decrypting bitlocker takes more time than re-installing the OS itself, so that may be what i end up doing.

[RadiatingLight]

2 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

Actually it does, since it's encrypted. You don't know how the data is represented.

You probably have data organized like :

[Data]->[Free space]->[Data]

Anyway, as far as GParted goes, a quick google yields :

 

Ah, yes. should've thought of that one.

is there a better solution, or should i just re-install my OS, and partition the SSD before it has an OS on it?

(I don't have many files on my SSD, so it's not that much of a hassle)

[Nineshadow]

It seems BitLocker uses a Full Volume Encryption Key for your particular volume. You really shouldn't mess with it. I'd recommend you turn off BitLocker first, then resize the partition.

[Nineshadow]

2 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Ah, yes. should've thought of that one.

is there a better solution, or should i just re-install my OS, and partition the SSD before it has an OS on it?

(I don't have many files on my SSD, so it's not that much of a hassle)

Sure, reinstalling the OS could work as well.

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, Nineshadow said:

It seems BitLocker uses a Full Volume Encryption Key for your particular volume. You really shouldn't mess with it. I'd recommend you turn off BitLocker first, then resize the partition.

it takes longer to remove bitlocker than reinstall the OS

that's probably what il end up doing